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Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Connect with Nikolay

Email: niz@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Connect with Brian

Email: B.E.Hayden@soton.ac.uk

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Eric

Email: erp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
Connect with David

Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics

Research interests

  • Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
  • Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
  • Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.
Connect with Otto

Email: O.Muskens@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Quantum, Light and Matter Group

Our research group examines the connections between physics, chemistry and engineering.

Research outputs

Metadevice for intensity modulation with sub-wavelength spatial resolution
Pablo M. Cencillo Abad, Nikolay Zheludev & Eric Plum, 2016, Scientific Reports, 6, 37109
DOI: 10.1038/srep37109
Type: article
Visible range plasmonic modes on topological insulator nanostructures
Alexander Dubrovkin, Giorgio Adamo, Jun Yin, Lan Wang, Cesare Soci, Qi Jie Wang & Nikolai Zheludev, 2016, Advanced Optical Materials, 1-10
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600768
Type: article
All-optical multichannel logic based on coherent perfect absorption in a plasmonic metamaterial
Maria Papaioannou, Eric Plum, João Valente, Edward Rogers & Nikolay Zheludev, 2016, APL Photonics, 1(90801), 1-9
DOI: 10.1063/1.4966269
Type: article
Random access actuation of nanowire grid metamaterial
Pablo Cencillo Abad, Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum, João Valente & Nikolay Zheludev, 2016, Nanotechnology, 27(48), 1-6
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/48/485206
Type: article
Sharp toroidal resonances in planar terahertz metasurfaces
Manoj Gupta, Vassili Savinov, Ningning Xu, Longqing Cong, Govind Dayal, Shuang Wang, Weili Zhang, Nikolay I. Zheludev & Ranjan Singh, 2016, Advanced Materials, 28(37), 8206-8211
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201601611
Type: article